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Eastbourne - Old Town

Eastbourne’s Oldest House.

 

No 4 (includes former No 6), 4 Borough Lane, Old Town, Eastbourne, East Sussex

 

 

Grade II Listed

 

List Entry Number: 1043666

 

 

Details

 

BOROUGH LANE, OLD TOWN 1. 1065 No 4 (includes former No 6) (formerly listed as Nos 4 & 6) TV 5999 SE 4/20 27.5.49. II

 

2. C16 timber framed house, originally 2 cottages. The 1st floor overhangs on beams. Brick buttress on the 1st floor to the South of the North bay. Red tiled roof. Casement windows. The ground floor has been a good deal altered. The front is plastered. Enlarged windows have been inserted. There are 3 doorways. The Northernmost bay was refaced in the C18. The whole front of this is plastered. The roof is of slate. A sash window was inserted. The side is hung with tiles.

 

Listing NGR: TV5992099424

 

historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043666

 

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Eastbourne’s Oldest House.

 

‘Pilgrims’

4 Borough Lane

Old Town

Eastbourne

 

This building was originally two houses. Its 16th-century origins have been obscured by repeated alterations, including work in the 18th century which changed the whole of the northern section. The upper storey is jettied. Most windows are casements, although there are later sashes as well. The interior is timber-framed.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Eastbourne

 

 

Plaque at ‘Pilgrims’ in Borough Lane

 

The benefactor of the plaque to Charles Dickens was the Chairperson of the Eastbourne Dickensians, the late Vera Banwell-Clode: it records the author’s visits during the 1830s, when he stayed as a guest of the Victorian artist Augustus Egg, RA, who rented the house in Borough Lane.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastbourne_Blue_Plaques

 

 

More information can be found here:-

 

www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/charles-dickens-blue-plaque-in...

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